Ptenidium kishenehnicum (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), a New Fossil Described from the Kishenehn Oil Shales, with a Checklist of Previously Known Fossil Ptiliids

Floyd W. Shockley; Dale Greenwalt

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.115.2.173

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Floyd W. Shockley,¹ Dale Greenwalt¹

¹(FWS) Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-165, Washington, DC 20013-7012 (e-mail: ) ShockleyF@si.edu

Abstract

Ptenidium kishenehnicum Shockley and Greenwalt, a new species of feather-winged beetle (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), is described from 46 million year old Kishenehn oil shales in Montana, USA. This compression fossil is the first beetle species to be described from this formation. A checklist of known fossils and their ages is provided.

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Floyd W. Shockley and Dale Greenwalt "Ptenidium kishenehnicum (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), a New Fossil Described from the Kishenehn Oil Shales, with a Checklist of Previously Known Fossil Ptiliids," Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 115(2), 173-181, (1 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.115.2.173

Published: 1 April 2013

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